Kingdom of the Two Sicilies
English
Etymology
A calque of Italian Regno delle Due Sicilie and Latin Regnum Utriusque Siciliae, both named in reference to the 1816 creation of the state as the personal union of the Kingdom of Sicily before Faro (the Kingdom of Naples, by its formal name), and the Kingdom of Sicily beyond Faro (the Kingdom of Sicily proper).
Proper noun
the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies
- (historical) A former kingdom in southern Italy with its capital at Palermo and Naples between 1816 and 1861, covering Sicily and most of the present-day Mezzogiorno.
Synonyms
- Two Sicilies, Sicily; Kingdom of Naples, Naples (inexact)
Translations
historical kingdom covering Sicily and that part of the Italian peninsula south of the Papal States
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